Dracula Discussion - Chapters 25-27
NIck Yun, Hyun Kim, Terry Kim
Activity
Through this activity, the class will be able to review and refresh their memory on the plot, themes, and several other questions related to the books both factual as well as interpretive. The class will be divided into three equal groups. Each group will represent one piece on the board. Each group group rolls a dice to determine how many spaces they will move on the board. Depending on the color of the space that they have landed on, one of the three colored cards will be asked by the administrators. If they answer the question correctly, then they are able to stay on the color that they had landed on. If they answer the question incorrectly, they will go back to where they had started before they had rolled the dice.
Everyone from the group will have a turn to answer going in rotation order. Only that person is allowed to answer the question given by the administrators.. To determine who goes first initiating the game, the players will have to answer a question asked by the administrators. Whoever is closest shall start the game. The winners of the game will all receive a prize distributed by the administrators.
Team 1: Soojin,Joshua, Claire, Joseph Team 2: Hijo, Angie, DongMyung, Hanna Team 3: Britney, Ho Joon, Jenny, Sangwoo
Factual Questions:
What is the name of the ship that Dracula departs on to Varna? (Nick Yun)
How is Dracula slain? (Nick Yun)
What do the three vampire women do to Lucy and Van Helsing? (Terry Kim)
The company split up to go to which places? (Terry)
Why did Helsing sprinkle bits of the Wafer around Mina? (Hyun)
What path does Dracula plan to take to get to his Castle? (Hyun)
Why does the party split into two groups? (Hyun)
What changes does Mina go through in this section? (Hyun)
Interpretive Questions:
How has Jonathan Harker changed throughout the novel? (Nick Yun)
Do you think that it was a good idea to bring Mina on the voyage? (Nick Yun)
Do you think Jonathan would really have what it takes to kill Mina if she was to turn into a Vampire? (Nick Yun)
Why does Dracula run away? (Terry Kim)
Is Mina representative of an ideal Victorian woman in this section? In other sections? Why or why not? (Hyun)
Why do the three women reappear? What do they symbolize? (Hyun)
Why do Gypsies help Dracula? (Hyun)
Evaluative Questions:
Judging by Dracula's seemingly release from evil near the end, do you believe there is a superior being above Dracula in his lineage? (Nick Yun)
Does the author portray any relation to Victorian society in this section? (Terry)
Do you think Dracula is a criminal? Why? (Terry)
A caption on the bottom of page 325 states that the author cancelled a paragraph about Dracula's Castle exploding as Dracula died, from being published. Why did the author necessarily make the ending "less" grand? (Hyun)
Why does the author write the little epilogue at the end of the book? What message does he try to get across and what is its function? (Hyun)
Other
If a second book on Dracula were written in Dracula's perspective, do you think it would be like Grendel? Why? (Terry)
What similarities does this book share with literature we have read this school year (Macbeth, Grendel, Jekyll and Hyde)? (Hyun)
NIck Yun, Hyun Kim, Terry Kim
Activity
Through this activity, the class will be able to review and refresh their memory on the plot, themes, and several other questions related to the books both factual as well as interpretive. The class will be divided into three equal groups. Each group will represent one piece on the board. Each group group rolls a dice to determine how many spaces they will move on the board. Depending on the color of the space that they have landed on, one of the three colored cards will be asked by the administrators. If they answer the question correctly, then they are able to stay on the color that they had landed on. If they answer the question incorrectly, they will go back to where they had started before they had rolled the dice.
Everyone from the group will have a turn to answer going in rotation order. Only that person is allowed to answer the question given by the administrators.. To determine who goes first initiating the game, the players will have to answer a question asked by the administrators. Whoever is closest shall start the game. The winners of the game will all receive a prize distributed by the administrators.
Team 1: Soojin,Joshua, Claire, Joseph
Team 2: Hijo, Angie, DongMyung, Hanna
Team 3: Britney, Ho Joon, Jenny, Sangwoo
Factual Questions:
What is the name of the ship that Dracula departs on to Varna? (Nick Yun)
How is Dracula slain? (Nick Yun)
What do the three vampire women do to Lucy and Van Helsing? (Terry Kim)
The company split up to go to which places? (Terry)
Why did Helsing sprinkle bits of the Wafer around Mina? (Hyun)
What path does Dracula plan to take to get to his Castle? (Hyun)
Why does the party split into two groups? (Hyun)
What changes does Mina go through in this section? (Hyun)
Interpretive Questions:
How has Jonathan Harker changed throughout the novel? (Nick Yun)
Do you think that it was a good idea to bring Mina on the voyage? (Nick Yun)
Do you think Jonathan would really have what it takes to kill Mina if she was to turn into a Vampire? (Nick Yun)
Why does Dracula run away? (Terry Kim)
Is Mina representative of an ideal Victorian woman in this section? In other sections? Why or why not? (Hyun)
Why do the three women reappear? What do they symbolize? (Hyun)
Why do Gypsies help Dracula? (Hyun)
Evaluative Questions:
Judging by Dracula's seemingly release from evil near the end, do you believe there is a superior being above Dracula in his lineage? (Nick Yun)
Does the author portray any relation to Victorian society in this section? (Terry)
Do you think Dracula is a criminal? Why? (Terry)
A caption on the bottom of page 325 states that the author cancelled a paragraph about Dracula's Castle exploding as Dracula died, from being published. Why did the author necessarily make the ending "less" grand? (Hyun)
Why does the author write the little epilogue at the end of the book? What message does he try to get across and what is its function? (Hyun)
Other
If a second book on Dracula were written in Dracula's perspective, do you think it would be like Grendel? Why? (Terry)
What similarities does this book share with literature we have read this school year (Macbeth, Grendel, Jekyll and Hyde)? (Hyun)